# Manistee County Blacker Airport (MBL / KMBL)

**Manistee County Blacker Airport** (IATA: MBL, ICAO: KMBL) is a small airport in Manistee, Michigan, United States. It opened in Apr 1940. It has 2 runways; the longest is 5,501 ft (1,677 m). In 2025 it handled 16 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmbl

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: MBL / KMBL
- FAA: MBL
- Type: Small airport
- Serves: Manistee, Michigan, United States
- Opened: Apr 1940
- Elevation: 621 ft / 189 m
- Coordinates: 44.2727, -86.2465
- Runways: 2
- Longest runway: 5,501 ft / 1,677 m
- Instrument procedures: 3 approaches
- Passengers: 16,038 (2025)
- Time zone: UTC-5/-4 · America/Detroit
- Website: http://www.manisteeairport.com
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manistee_County_Blacker_Airport (6 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1444563
- Weather station: KMBL
- Ident: KMBL

## Timeline

- Apr 1940: Manistee County Blacker Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10/28 | 5,501 ft / 1,677 m | 100 ft / 31 m | Asphalt | 091° / 271° | yes |
| 01/19 | 2,721 ft / 829 m | 75 ft / 23 m | Asphalt | 001° / 181° | yes |

- FAA airport diagram: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2611/05257AD.PDF

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2015 | 9,955 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2016 | 8,055 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2017 | 9,820 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2021 | 9,957 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2022 | 10,161 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2023 | 11,886 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2024 | 13,730 | BTS T-100 Segment |
| 2025 | 16,038 | BTS T-100 Segment |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [ORD](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kord.md) Chicago O'Hare International Airport · United States · 179 mi / 288 km · Contour Airlines

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from MBL, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- LF [Contour Airlines](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/contour-airlines) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 16K (2025) | #2,521 of 3,974 | #599 in North America | #415 in US |
| Longest runway | 5,501 ft / 1,677 m | =5,392 of 29,858 | =1,652 in North America | =1,310 in US |
| Elevation | 621 ft / 189 m | #24,954 of 43,403 | #12,002 in North America | #9,995 in US |
| Age | Opened 1940 | =1,114 of 15,079 | =366 in North America | =338 in US |
| Runways | 2 | =715 of 29,978 | =435 in North America | =391 in US |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AWOS | AWOS 3 | 111.400 |
| RDO | LANSING RDO | 111.400 |
| UNIC | CTAF/UNICOM | 122.800 |

## Nearby airports

- [7Y2](https://dromopedia.com/airports/7y2.md) Thompsonville Airport · 22 mi / 35 km
- [LDM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kldm.md) Mason County Airport · 23 mi / 37 km
- [4Y9](https://dromopedia.com/airports/4y9.md) Eagles Landing Airport · 24 mi / 38 km
- [KFKS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/kfks.md) Frankfort Dow Memorial Field · 24 mi / 39 km
- [95MI](https://dromopedia.com/airports/95mi.md) Evad Enterprises LLC Airport · 29 mi / 46 km
- [Y88](https://dromopedia.com/airports/y88.md) Green Lake Airport · 33 mi / 54 km

## Sources

- [BTS T-100 Segment](https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Tables.asp?QO_VQ=EEE&QO_anzr=Nv4%20Pn44vr45): US traffic: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment (Public Domain (US Government))
- [FAA NASR](https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_data/NASR_Subscription/): US airport data: FAA National Airspace System Resources (Public Domain (US Government))
- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Manistee County Blacker Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manistee_County_Blacker_Airport&oldid=1363056756), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/kmbl/data